A public watchdog backed down yesterday in its long-running battle to force Britain's £72bn food industry to adopt colour-coded warning labels, to the disappointment of campaigners who believe they would turn people off junk food.
The decision by the Food Standards Agency's board meeting in Cardiff was the first time the agency had dropped its insistence manufacturers use 'traffic light' colours as part of efforts to reduce obesity, heart disease and other diet-related illnesses. Instead, the FSA decided they could display two of the following three methods to indicate the healthiness of food: the colours red, amber and green; the words 'high', 'medium' or 'low'; or percentages of nutrients such as salt and fat.
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